Chapter 1714: The Last Hope Was Actually Him?

Seeing this, a smear of joy surfaced in Chen Ling's eyes.

Since the annihilation of the previous world was because the Red Star smashed Earth into pieces, triggering the collapse of civilization... Then just directly take away Earth carrying civilization. This way, the Red Star wouldn't be able to trigger the collapse of civilization, and this world would be able to survive.

But Chen Ling quickly discovered that his idea was still too naive. After Earth wandered in the universe for a long time, the Red Star actually appeared again. This time its orbit had changed, and it actually intercepted the Earth flying in the universe like a homing missile!

As a result, the Lord of Tianshu sacrificed himself once again to turn into a meteor, forcefully knocking the Red Star off its original orbit, and forcefully preserving Earth.

This was perhaps the first time in history that humanity survived the Red Star's third impact.

But good times don't last long. After the Lord of Tianshu knocked away the Red Star, the world seemed to reverse back to its original trajectory again. The plague began to erupt, and the Human Domains plunged into chaos. Fortunately, the Lord of the South Sea and Doctor Han, who had already become a Demigod, joined hands and forcefully suppressed the plague...

But before long, the Red Star actually descended for the fourth time...

Earth was annihilated again.

Chen Ling watched this scene in disbelief, as if he had realized something.

As long as Earth wasn't annihilated, the Red Star would continuously turn its direction until it completely smashed the human civilization it carried into pieces, triggering the world to collapse!

At this moment, a terrifying thought appeared in Chen Ling's heart.

Could it be...

The Red Star possessed self-awareness??

It was like an extremely patient civilization hunter. Before completely destroying human civilization, it absolutely wouldn't stop its footsteps.

If this was the case, then no matter how humanity thought of ways to escape, it was useless. Even if they could dodge the second time, third time, fourth time, fifth time... Even the tenth time, eleventh time, the Red Star would still make a comeback.

The only way to resolve everything was only... completely destroy the Red Star!

After experiencing a life-and-death struggle, Chen Ling's mental energy had long been overdrawn to the extreme. He didn't even have the strength to reboot even one more time. But now that he just understood exactly how powerful the efficacy of the Akashic Tower was, how could he be willing to stop just like this?

Within the flickering tower body, Chen Ling unhesitatingly pressed the muzzle of the gun against his own temple, and then...

Pulled the trigger!!

Bang——!

Under the effect of the [Judgment] power, Chen Ling's head was instantly annihilated. His entire person completely turned into a lifeless corpse and fell downward...

[Audience Expectation Value -50]

[Current Expectation Value: 46%]

Two lines of text flashed above the Stage, and Chen Ling's dead silent body began to rapidly respawn!

Endless red paper converged within the Akashic Tower, and Chen Ling's complete body was sketched out. At the same time, his already overdrawn and depleted mental energy directly returned to its peak state!

Without hesitation, he once again introduced Red Star Aspiration Power into his body, and a massive amount of blood mist explosively blew out from his body!

"Continue——!!"

Chen Ling roared with completely red eyes. The extreme Power of Negation was opened again, forcefully tampering with the direction of the world line deduction once again.

In the third deduction, Chen Ling knew the core essence lay in destroying the Red Star, so he placed his bets on the Lord of Hanging Jade... The Lord of Hanging Jade and the Lord of Tianshu joined hands, directly anticipating the Red Star's trajectory and creating a super-massive black hole in the deep space of the universe.

But at the critical moment, the Red Star seemed to have deliberately adjusted its trajectory. The black hole only tore apart less than a quarter of its body, and the other three-quarters still smashed Earth into pieces.

In the fourth deduction, Chen Ling bet on the Lord of the Red Dust, Su Zhiwei. Since the Red Star was matter, it could definitely be decomposed by String Theory. However, even if they had both made ample preparations, the Lord of the Red Dust could only consume less than one-sixth of the Red Star's volume...

The fifth time...

The sixth time...

Starting from the eleventh time, Chen Ling tried to shift his gaze to existences outside of the Nine Monarchs.

He went one step ahead to the Ancient Vault of the Military Path to rescue Bai Qi, found a suitable body for him, and helped him complete his rebirth... And then little by little helped him take back the power that belonged to him.

In the final battle, the Lord of the South Sea bestowed Bai Qi with extreme vitality. The Lord of Wuji turned himself into armor and draped it over Bai Qi, while Bai Qi pulled out the entire Ancient Vault of the Military Path. One person and one sword, he met the Red Star in battle.

Ultimately, he forcefully slashed apart one-third of the Red Star.

But humanity's ending... was still failure.

The eighteenth time...

The twenty-fifth time...

After witnessing the annihilation of Earth countless times, Chen Ling's mindset had already gone numb. He discovered that no matter how he modified the world's direction, an existence capable of defeating the Red Star couldn't appear in this world... Whether fighting single-handedly or in a group battle, the best result was just destroying nearly half of the Red Star.

Until the thirty-seventh negation, a development that Chen Ling absolutely never expected appeared.

That was a Silver King in peak condition.

This time, he didn't die by the Red King's hands. He stole the complete Path of the Thief, and then after the Red Star's second impact, he secretly made a move and stole all the fragments that burst out after the Red Star was knocked flying by the Lord of Tianshu.

Although there was only one Red Star Fragment that fell back to the Gray World in reality, and its shape was very small, there were actually many fragments generated after that impact, it was just that most scattered all over the universe... But under the Silver King's theft, these fragments were all collected by him. Adding them together, they actually equaled the amount of fragments absorbed by three Nine Monarchs back then.

He didn't recklessly absorb the Red Star directly, but with high frequency and stability, stole the power of these Red Star Fragments. His power rose at an astonishing speed, finally reaching an unimaginable level...

And then, he began to steal other Divine Pathways.

This legendary thief successively stole ten Divine Pathways, almost single-handedly severing the advancement path of ten Divine Pathways, becoming the first Demigod in history to master eleven Divine Pathways.

At this time, the Silver King was already invincible under heaven. Even if three Nine Monarchs including the Lord of Spirit Void joined hands, they couldn't defeat him.

And when the Red Star returned for the third time, he did an even more shocking thing...

He directly stole the space where Earth was located.

The entire planet was like a jellybean, put into the Silver King's blue and black fedora. He just walked in the deep space of the universe with Earth like this, dodging the Red Star, while simultaneously continuing to steal other Divine Pathways on Earth.

He just relied on his own power to bring Earth to dodge a full eight attacks from the Red Star, and during this process, his power continuously grew. After stealing a complete eighteen Divine Pathways, he seemed to have broken through some boundary, arriving at an indescribable realm...

This thief walking in the deep space of the universe seemed to have noticed something, and looked up toward a certain place in the void...

That was Chen Ling's location within the Akashic Tower.